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Marine Log Salvage/Beachcomber
The following is meant solely to help the reader understand the main features of primary regulations governing this activity, and not meant in any way to provide a legal interpretation.
Forest Act and B.C. Regulation:
The objectives of the log salvage regulation are to provide the legal basis for salvage of logs that have gone astray in the waters of a Log Salvage District and to ensure that as many of these logs as possible are recovered and returned to the manufacturing process.
Property rights of owners and the interest of the Crown must be safeguarded.
A log salvage permit is required to salvage logs in the Log Salvage District. Regulation requires permit holders to operate as individuals rather than as companies. The Permittee may not engage in manufacturing timber products and salvaged logs must be sold through a licensed log receiving station. The receiving station markets all grades of merchantable logs.
Note: For log salvage in lakes, contact nearest District Forest Manager.
Marine Log Salvage: http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/tasb/legsregs/forest/foract/part9.htm
Log Salvage Regulation for the Vancouver Log Salvage District:http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/tasb/legsregs/forest/faregs/logsalv/lsrvan.htm
Primary Contact:
Ministry of Forests
Log Salvage
2100 Labieux Road
Nanaimo, B.C. V9T 6E9
Tel: (250) 751-7001
Fax: (250) 751-7197
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca
Logging Tax Act:
A person who sells logs, standing timber, cutting rights, or who acquires logs for manufacture, in British Columbia, may be subject to logging tax. A tax of 10 % is applied to the annual net income attributable to those transactions.
Logging Tax paid is usually deductible as a credit, from federal and provincial income taxes, if claimed within 3 years of filing the income tax return.
Primary Contact
Ministry of Finance
Income Tax Branch
1802 Douglas St.
Victoria, BC V8T 4K6
Tel: (250) 387-0616
Fax: (250) 356-9243
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